Lotus Club Queensland
Dedicated to the promotion and enhancement of the Lotus experience
Login
Register
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Membership
    • Member Login
  • Events
    • Calendar
  • Motorsport
    • Lakeside DTC Timed Laps
    • LAKESIDE DTC RESULTS
  • Magazine
  • For Sale
    • Merchandise
    • Classifieds
  • Posts
  • Galleries
  • Directory
    • Suppliers & Parts
    • Advertisers
  • Archives
abd-banner

All British Day 2018

Our Concours at the All British Day.

Story and pictures by Vyvyan Black.

Come Sunday the 23rd of September, I wanted to have my car looking it’s best for our annual Concours d’Elegance at the All British Day. But I had a lot to of work to do.

Unlike the wonderful Lotus examples listed below as class winners, in my ownership the Plus 2, though in very good condition, has never actually been the pinnacle of perfection. And truthfully, I’m okay with that – if it was perfect I’d be afraid to use it!

Anyway, I needed to repair the damage that was done when I last took the beast to Morgan Park Raceway for a fun dash around in the B-Series comp. On the first run the engine bay suddenly became a Weber barbeque, flames licking into the cabin, and I wasn’t cooking snags!

Thanks to the wonderful team at the track who saved the day and avoided the horrible spectacle of my car becoming a sticky lump of metal and fibreglass beside the track. Needless to say though that the manic use of fire extinguishers and the ripping of panels to get to the heart of the fire didn’t do wonders for my interior.

So, eventually, and after a long and expensive job of replacing all the under bonnet burnable bits, there I was at 11.30pm the night before the concours swearing at the last bolt on the passenger seat to make its whereabouts known immediately, hands blackened with carpet and glue, and back aching with the ups and downs of my new career as a motor trimmer.

All worth it in the morning though, as ‘Zsa-Zsa’ flickered with life and we happily burbled off – me admiring the newness of it all – ready to check out all the other British mechanical perfection on display.

I promise I’ll do my best to keep it all shiny and clean. Next job, all those bloody stone chips!

Winners:
Tony Galletly (Lotus Eleven) Class 1: Lotus Cars 1950–1962
Bill Blackmore (Lotus Elan +2) Class 2: Lotus Cars 1963–1974
Russell Carter (Lotus Carlton) Class 3: Lotus Cars 1975–1995
Steve Lennox (Lotus Europa S) Class 4: Lotus Cars 1996–2017
Daryl Wilson (Caterham) Class 5: Lotus 7 & Caterham
Craig Wilson (Lotus Elan S1) Outright Winner

winner-tony-galletly-eleven
award-tony-galletly
winner-craig-wilson-elan
award-craig-wilson
winner-steve-lennox-europa
award-steve-lennox
winner-daryl-wilson-caterham
award-daryl-wilson
winner-russell-carter-carlton
lotus-carlton
award-russell-carter
winner-bill-blackmore-plus2
award-bill-blackmore
the-blingster
barrys-new-exige
pretty-red-elise
esprit-1
esprit-2
esprit-3
vyvs-plus2-2

[Show slideshow]
1 2 3 ►
Porsche Club Sprints & ICC Round 6 Targa Great Barrier Reef

Related Posts

mp-banner

Events, Gallery 2022, Homepage, Racing

Morgan Park Sprints R4

gold-rush-banner

Events, Gallery 2022, Homepage, Racing

Gold Rush Hill Sprint – 2022

marburg-banner

EMRs, Gallery 2022, Homepage, News

Marburg Pub Run – 4 Sept 2022

Random images

122_2237_IMG lots-of-arm-folding The-line-up Rob-in-his-4WD IMGP3419 IMGP3195 a-looker 12.LCQ-Lockyer-Ullysses-Club Class_Winner MGP2206 IMG_6244 sam-on-track-behind IMG_7106 IMG_6857 IMG_7478 13e DSC_1535 10_Entering_the_Maiala_Rainforest_Teahouse P1060536 IMG_2543 IMG_1985 Clive, Martin & Suzanne Little-bit-wet Photo-28-11-20-8-09-45-pm ICC-Start-Line Big-Daz Liam, Darryl, Joe Roger Morrison 2016 Ford Focus RS - 1 And they're racing IMG-0158 IMG-0155 IMG_8794 Dressed tree in the main street Jenny, Moira, Chris and Jon dtc-oops-missed Car 194 IMG-1001 20160522_111018 Ormiston-9 Jason & Garry On the track IMG_0305_1 main-36 Mar-main-96 Mar-main-48 Mar-main-5 The-pie-eaters IMG_4876 P1010430 161_161 2006_08_27_Gympie_Skid_Pan0081 2006_08_27_Gympie_Skid_Pan0092 LCQ_Line_up Elnbulance 1425978763_0d0f03a150_m_1 IMG_0487 IMG_0361 IMG_0282 img_1082 20131005_181346 IMG_0533 Cane_field_moderns_grazing IMG_0918 IMGP7333 P8310116 John_Lungren_s_Seven IMG_8044 DSC03823 P9190094c1 IMG_0031 100_100 image_016 image_066 image_187 IMG_7353 IMG_5144 Beechworth-Police-lock-up Steve-Lennox-Europa-S-2 Craig-Elan-2 Not Sure About That Michael-Bennett’s-lovely-Lotus-12-at-Phillip-Island-they-don’t-make-them-like-that-any-more-lr unnamed IMG_9682 photo-14 The Red Baron img_2031 Over-3000cc-Sports-cars.-Geoff-Noble-Matt-Plowman-and-Maree-filling-in-for-Tony-Seymour IMG_8204 Garry GT-Cortina-Mk2 in dock Peter and Pat main-21 170730 SMM Dyno Chart main-24 Alex IMAG6018 Torana donk Sam on the Grid main-52 Garry-with-presenter-Giles

Recent Articles

  • Morgan Park Sprints R4
  • Kev’s Big Day Out
  • Duratec Elise – better late than never
  • Gold Rush Hill Sprint – 2022
  • Marburg Pub Run – 4 Sept 2022
  • Unique +2 Road Trip to Brisbane
  • Leyburn 2022
  • August 2022 DTC

Latest Gallery Images

20220220_093834 20220220_093818 20220220_093827 20220220_093743 20220220_093812 20220220_093730

Search articles by category

Archived articles

Lotus Club Queensland
© Lotus Club Queensland   |   Site by Black Eye Studios